Sirena Selena
By: Mayra Santos-Febres
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena : s omewhere between "Th…
Want to Read $ 11.99"There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other"-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
"There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other"-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
"You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else."-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
"You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunger and the desire to be someone else."-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
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1. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
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"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
2. Los recuerdos del porvenir
By: Elena Garro
4.33
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Los recuerdos del porvenir es la historia coral del pueblo de Ixtepec, en alguna llanura cerca de M… read more
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- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- novels
"Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo sólo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga."-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir
"Él sabía que el porvenir era un retroceder veloz hacia la muerte y la muerte el estado perfecto, el momento precioso en que el hombre recupera plenamente su otra memoria."-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir
"¡Los abogados...! ¿Y a quién van a juzgar? Esperamos la respuesta consabida: a los traidores de la Patria. ¿Qué traición y qué patria? La Patria en esos días llevaba el nombre doble de Calles-Obregón…"-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir
"Aquí estoy, sentado sobre esta piedra aparente. Sólo mi memoria sabe lo que encierra. La veo y me recuerdo, y como el agua va al agua, así yo, melancólico, vengo a encontrarme en su imagen cubierta p…"-Elena Garro, Los recuerdos del porvenir
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4. The Well of Loneliness
By: Radclyffe Hall
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disgu… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
5. Amora
By: Rosamaría Roffiel
3.71
Format: 192 pages,
En esta novela testimonial, el amor se feminiza totalmente en el encuentro de dos consciencias y de… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
6. El lugar sin límites
By: José Donoso
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Un mundo que es el infierno, donde se ponen al descubierto las falsas apariencias, la sordidez, la … read more
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- lgbt
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- queer
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8. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more
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9. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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10. Flush
By: Virginia Woolf , None
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening p… read more
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11. Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
LA NUEVA NOVELA DE LA AUTORA FINALISTA AL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD por Mandíbula Seleccionada por la … read more
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- literary fiction
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- novels
12. Aquí no es Miami
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.17
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more
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- spanish literature
- latin american
"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami
13. Las voladoras
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Mónica Ojeda se ha convertido en una de las voces más exitosas y leídas de la nueva generación lite… read more
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- spanish literature
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- contemporary
"Cuando uno está arriba piensa que ver bien será difícil, pero no es verdad. Ves nítidamente lo que eres y lo que son los otros, que abajo todo es pequeño y miserable y que de allí provienes. Ese es e…"-Mónica Ojeda, Las voladoras
14. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
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- contemporary
15. Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
By: Cristina Rivera Garza
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, unforgettable memoir about a beloved younger sister and the painful memory of her murde… read more
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- spanish literature
"Ahora sí es posible escribir lo inexpresable. Mejor dicho, ahora hay algo inexpresable y, luego entonces ahora es posible escribir."-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Éramos apenas unas niñas de dieciocho años, pero ahí íbamos junto con todos los demás, pidiendo lo imposible porque, ¿qué más se puede pedir a esa edad?"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"Somos ellas en el pasado, y somos ellas en el futuro, y somos otras a la vez. Somos otras y somos las mismas de siempre. Mujeres en busca de justicia. Mujeres exhaustas, y juntas. Hartas ya, pero con…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
"It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand that the victim be blamed and that you blame yourself with her. It is in the imperative, inescapable, overwhelming demand to exonerate the mu…"-Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
16. Still Born
By: Guadalupe Nettel
4.13
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! For readers of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, … read more
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- literary fiction
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Thoughts are like clouds moving in the sky, you know? Before you know it, they change shape or they just aren't there anymore."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"There is a word to describe someone who loses their spouse, and a word for children who are left without parents. There is no word, however, for a parent who loses their child."-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
"A mí me intrigan más las aves a las que parasitan. Según yo, saben que no son sus crías y aun así las cuidan y las atienden. Yo pienso que llega un punto en que todas las madres nos damos cuenta de e…"-Guadalupe Nettel, Still Born
17. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
By: Julia Alvarez
3.68
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more
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- literary fiction
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18. You Dreamed of Empires
By: Álvaro Enrigue
3.85
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more
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- novels
19. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
By: Jamil Jan Kochai
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A luminous meditation on sons and fathers, ghosts of war, and living history that moves between mod… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why must we always ruin what is beautiful with what is true?"-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
"Agha's one of those OG Pashtuns who'd argue with Allah over the nature of existence."-Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
20. Hecho en Saturno
By: Rita Indiana
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
He aquí la historia de los hijos de una revolución, de muchas revoluciones. He aquí la vida en una … read more
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- spanish literature
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21. Sirena Selena
By: Mayra Santos-Febres
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From the author of Urban Oracles comes Mayra Santos-Febres's Sirena Selena : s omewhere between "Th… read more
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- lgbt
- literature
- latin american
- spanish literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- novels
- queer
"There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other"-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
"You laugh as you sing about dying, you drug yourself up, but you can still see clearly, and you die as you break into a fit of laughter, because asi es la vida in this soup of islands stewed in hunge…"-Mayra Santos-Febres, Sirena Selena
